125+ of the best free stock photo resources for bloggers

Anyone else remember the days when it was really hard to find free stock photos on the web? The search engines were full of expensive professional stock websites pretending to offer free images (they never actually did, but you didn’t find that out until after signing up). And there were rarely any good photos for bloggers either – definitely no flatlays or desks with flowers.

Happily, all that’s changed now. There are so many great free stock image resources, and more are popping up all the time. In fact, this post started out as “50 free stock photo resources for bloggers”. Then it became 100. Then 125+. You’ll never run out of images again.

These images are all great for blog post headers, social media images, email thumbnails, pop up boxes and more. Please check the licensing agreements of any photos you download; I’ve tried to include as many personal/commercial use, attribution-free, creative commons photo sites as possible but not all the resources in the list meet these criteria.

Have I missed a great free resource? Let me know in the comments!

General free stock photo sites

No particular theme, just high quality photos covering a wide variety of topics.

Premium stock photo sites with free sections

These are sites that typically charge for stock photos, but have free downloads too. I’ve linked directly to the free sections wherever possible. Most of these websites require free sign up or ask you to subscribe to a mailing list.

Super useful list Jenni, so glad you made this. I am always on the lookout for some great photos. But I have a question, are the photos available on these sites fit for commercial use? Can I use these on my etsy shop or zazzle etc.

Jenni, you are a blogging angel! Since the last time you posted one of these sorts of posts, my blog photo game has gotten so much better as instead of trying to create an image I can just use a stock photo.

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Welcome! I'm Jenni. I'm the co-founder of Lyrical Host and a blogger who has been writing about travel, organisation, photography, baking, blogging, life, social media, and a million other things since 2001.